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What is the Future of Cancer?

For thousands of years, people have battled cancer in myriad forms. Today we still toil to triumph over the disease. Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and physician Siddhartha Mukherjee dissects cancer, from its historic roots to today’s most promising treatments. Can we count on a cure?

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Fact: Health

A Kaiser Family Foundation survey found that in 2012, employees’ annual share of insurance premiums averaged $951 for individual coverage and $4,316 for family coverage. Under the IRS rule, such costs would be considered affordable for an employee with a household income of $35,000 a year – making the employee’s spouse and children ineligible for a public subsidy on a health exchange, even though that family would have to spent 12% of its income for the employer’s family plan.